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Should policy makers be prevented from bailing out investors in the event of a crisis? I study this question in a model of financial intermediation with limited commitment. When a crisis occurs, the efficient policy response is to use public resources to augment the private consumption of those...
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for the majority of this increase. Individual banks' contributions to aggregate vulnerability predict other firm …
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Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as financial market conditions deteriorated, large losses accumulated, and emergency capital and liquidity were being provided by the official sector. In contrast, share repurchases...
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capital by 22 basis points, or 10 percent of total funding costs. This effect is stronger in banks that were measured as …
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monetary policy's risk-return trade-off, including 1) pricing of risk, 2) leverage, 3) maturity and liquidity mismatch, and 4 …
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We describe a set of six design principles for the reorganization of the U.S. housing finance system and apply them to one model for replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that has so far received frequent mention but little sustained analysis – the lender cooperative utility. We discuss the...
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There is a longstanding debate about whether banking panics and other financial crises always have fundamental causes or are sometimes the result of self-fulfilling beliefs. Disagreement on this point would seem to present a serious obstacle to designing policies that promote financial...
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A 2012 paper by Goodhart, Kashyap, Tsomocos, and Vardoulakis (GKTV) proposes a dynamic general equilibrium framework that provides a conceptual — and to some extent quantitative — framework for the analysis of macroprudential policies. The distinguishing feature of GKTV's paper relative to...
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terms of the program. We also find that the net value varies widely across banks. We compare our estimates with abnormal … stock price returns for the stress test banks at the time the terms of the CAP announced; we find correlations between 0 ….78 and 0.85, depending on the precise choice of period and set of banks included. These results suggest that our valuation …
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We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government reinsurance for systemic or “tail” risk. The structure we propose for the replacement of the GSEs focuses on aligning incentives for appropriate pricing and transfer of...
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